Eyewitness identification can be convincing, but is it reliable? More than 75,000 prosecutions every year are based entirely on eyewitness identification. Some of those identifications are erroneous.

The National Academy of Sciences released a groundbreaking reportThursday that provides strong scientific confirmation and explanation of what we've long known about the reliability of eyewitness ...

Eyewitness misidentifications have long been a source of wrongful convictions, casting doubt on the reliability of memory in ...

Supreme Court cases dating to the 1960s have similarly stressed that eyewitness identifications are particularly untrustworthy and can lead to tainted jury verdicts and injustice.

And they want juries to be told that the failure to identify a suspect in an identification procedure - such as a police lineup or photo array - may reduce the reliability of that witness' later ...

“The study is intended to improve the statistical methods used to measure the reliability of eyewitness identification, evaluate how different psychological factors affect the accuracy of ...

In the past decade, the Supreme Courts of New Jersey and Oregon have each required courts in those states to consider research on eyewitness identification reliability before admitting such evidence.

Science has provided an increasingly clear picture of the inherent limits in human visual perception and memory that can lead to errors in eyewitness identification. While the law enforcement ...

The grant, according to the foundation, will fund a study that aims to improve the accuracy of eyewitness identification through the joint efforts of researchers in law, psychology and statistics.

Decades of research shows that human memory is far less reliable than people think, particularly when it comes to describing high stress events like crime.